Order, Order – A Minute of Your Indulgence

We confess. We hold up our hands. Call it cowardice, though at the time it was to protect those involved from a potentially tricky conversation with their bosses. But it's well and truly out, on the internet: the minute from a meeting that revealed a vertitable Who's Who from the Scottish media had applied for a top communications post at a Scottish local authority.

Everyone was talking about it yesterday.

Yep, allmediascotland had heard about it last week, and held back from revealing all, about the council seeking to appoint a head of corporate communications and marketing and having some of Scotland's most senior journalists all bidding to be picked.

As one allmediascotland reader remarked of the applicants: “Things must be desperate in Scottish journalism.”